DRAGON AGE ORIGINS: As Told By A Blind Poet (Part Three)

On the way to Orzammar does the Warden encounter
Antivian Crows set to ambush and assassinate
Brandishing their bows and daggers
The Warden slices through, breaking the attack
The leader of the assassins lays his sword in surrender
His name, Zevran, an elf
Pleads mercy for his allegiance to the Warden and no other

The Warden sheaths his sword to the dismay of Alistair
Who's trust for the assassin does not go far

Orzammar, the last of the Dwarven cities
Whose gates stand before the Warden
The treaty is prepped to behold towards the Dwarven King, behold towards his knees
Alas, the King has died leaving no heir
Political turmoil engulfs Orzammar with a house divided
Those supporting Lord Harrowmount, those supporting Prince Bhelen
Only the Assembly can decide who drinks the royal fluid

The votes are deadlocked and thus only the Warden can break them
He picks Harrowmount but must prove his allegiance to the Lord
To enter the Proving and become Harrowmount's gem
The Warden emerges champion and is given his next task
To gain the favour of the Assembly, to kill Jarvia and her gang
Through Dust Town they journey, questioning the casteless
Finding entrance to the hideout and into the wolf's fang

Fighting through legions of dwarfs proves no walk
Tis a hard earned road all the way
The Warden finally battles Jarvia herself, a hardened warlock
Ending with her blood feeding the grounds of Orzammar
The Warden returns to Harrowmount thinking the deed is done
Yet, the Lord provides another task to be completed to secure the throne
To search the Paragon Branka, within the ruins of the broken

Battlemaster Ohgren, husband of Branka joins the Warden's task
Determined to see his estranged wife once more
The search would take many dawns and many dusks
The trail leads the Warden through Caridian's Cross, Ortan Thaig and the Dead Trenches
Where thousands of darkspawn lurk within each and every wall
With no choice, and the fate of Ferelden in the Warden's hands
They press on towards each clues call

In the Dead Trenches, horror awaits
Of the discovery concerning the fates of Branka's House
In her mad obsession to obtain the Anvil and its ability to create
Branka had sacrificed her entire House to the hands of the darkspawn
The Warden comes across a creature most grotesque, The Broodmother
The battle lasts a sundown, blades, arrows and magic fly
It ends when the Warden rips out the creatures cancer

The journey serves to end at the Anvil Void
Where Branka shows her face and asks the Warden to help clear a path to the Anvil
The Warden abides and finds himself in a choice to have the Anvil preserved or destroyed
Caridin, the creator of the Anvil states the evils of using such a device
While Branka wants to use it, to bring glory back to the dwarves
The Warden sides with Caridin, earning the wrath of Branka
Upon defeating Branka, Caridin smiths a crown he himself carves

Caridin, knowing his creation is gone
Drops himself into the lava below
Finally resolved, he dies with his soul reaching the Makers warmth
The crown is presented to the new King of Orzammar, Harrowmount
And in turn, promises aid to end the Blight
Bhelen, in a fit of rage attacks the Warden, knowing who to blame for his defeat
The disgraced Bhelen dies in his spite

And for that, it ends but the story is far from over

For the next journey would take the Warden to the Dalish in the Brecillian outskirts